University of California, Irvine researchers analyzed the properties of more than 500,000 songs released over three decades to extract the most popular ones.
Los Angeles TimesFrom ACM TechNews | May 21, 2018

Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy have found it is possible to have a deep learning algorithm create compelling new game levels in Doom...Technology ReviewFrom ACM TechNews | May 18, 2018

At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...The New York TimesFrom ACM News | May 7, 2018

Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an...The New York TimesFrom ACM News | April 27, 2018

Researchers taught a machine to "hallucinate" its idea of the video game "Doom," then got a virtual agent to play its own dream version of the game so it could...MotherboardFrom ACM TechNews | March 30, 2018

Google's Project Magenta researchers have developed a machine to serve as an instrument that acts as a physical interface for the NSynth algorithm, which uses a...Tech XploreFrom ACM TechNews | March 20, 2018

A new algorithm plays Atari games and advances within them either by baiting an enemy to kill itself, or by exploiting bugs that allow the algorithm to cheat.
New ScientistFrom ACM TechNews | March 12, 2018

In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...The GuardianFrom ACM News | March 5, 2018

Scientists are simulating biological organisms and replicating evolution in the lab. How far can they expand the boundaries of virtual life?
Samuel GreengardFrom Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2018

Ten years ago, a chunk of animated cheese in Pixar's "Ratatouille" captured the imagination of cell biologist Janet Iwasa. So much so that it changed the way she...CNETFrom ACM Careers | January 29, 2018

Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...Neil SavageFrom Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2018